netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Always descend into dsa/

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Date:   Tue, 14 May 2019 18:04:40 +0200
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, andrew@...n.ch, vivien.didelot@...il.com,
        davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Always descend into dsa/

Mon, May 13, 2019 at 11:06:24PM CEST, f.fainelli@...il.com wrote:
>Jiri reported that with a kernel built with CONFIG_FIXED_PHY=y,
>CONFIG_NET_DSA=m and CONFIG_NET_DSA_LOOP=m, we would not get to a
>functional state where the mock-up driver is registered. Turns out that
>we are not descending into drivers/net/dsa/ unconditionally, and we
>won't be able to link-in dsa_loop_bdinfo.o which does the actual mock-up
>mdio device registration.
>
>Reported-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
>Fixes: 40013ff20b1b ("net: dsa: Fix functional dsa-loop dependency on FIXED_PHY")
>Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>

Tested-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>